Railway-tie.



P. E. FETTER. RAILWAY TIE.

APPLIGATION FILED 11313.23, 1911 992,415 Patentedmay 16, 1911.

FRANK E. FETTER, 0F READING, lEll'NSllhVANIA..V

nAiLWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16',l 1911.

Application led February 23, 1911. Serial No. 610,219.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. FETTER, citizen of the United States,residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in RailwayTies,ofwhich the following is a specification.

This inyention relates to improvements in railway ties and the object ofmy invention is to provide a tie of cement or concrete, with a suitablereinforce and a metal cover plate, with suitable supporting plates andsecuring means for'the railway rails. The invention is more fullydescribed in the following specification and clearly illustratedin theaccompanying drawing, in

which A Figure l 1s a plan view of my tie. Fig.

2 is a longitudinal section on line X-X of` Fig. l, and showing onlyone-half of the' tie. Fig. 3 is an end view of my tie.

The numeral l designates the body of the tie, which may be made ofcement or con' crete.

V'I`li`"'1n1u1eral 2 designates'the reinforce,

The numeral 4t designatesthe cover plate.- -This 'plate is formed withdownwardly bent' end portions 5, which liealongthe end walls protrudingends of the boltsf 3 pass through vopenings in these end p01*- of thetie. The

tions 5 and are provided with nuts 6.

The numeral designates the verticall clamping bolts which passthrouglf'fthe, tie from the under side,-and through the -longi tudinalreinforce and are 'provided on' the top with nuts 8. These bolts,one ofwhich of 'the rails,

is located inside the line of each securely hold the cover plate inposition' against the tie-l. l

To the upper side ofthe coverplate 1,.

at the points where the railswill cross it,

I secure a bed plate 9 on which the rails lbeneath the rails, readilyreplaced when Worn.

Having thus described 'my invention, what pass through the plates. passthrough' and securely hold the rail clamps l1, and nuts 12 on their endswill serve to hold the part-s together.

The cover plate will not be able to move longitudinally on the tie, byreason of'its being engaged at both ends and by 'the vertical bolts. Thebed plates will be securely held to the cover plate by the bolts l()which also hold the rail clamps.' It will be seen therefore,.that Whilethe rail may be easily removed and replaced, as may also the bed plateswhen worn, the possibility of the 4rail spreading, with relation to thetie, is entirely removed.

The 'tie is substantially everlasting, its upper or exposed surface isthoroughly pro-l tected by the metal cover plate and this plate, is alsoprotected froml Wear by the bed plates which are' easily and I claim anddesire to secure ent is l ,y

`In arailway tie the combination of concreteA and a metalv reinforce ofrectangular crossfsection' embedded ,in its -longi tudinal center andhaving reduced screw' threaded extremities l, which protrude from byLetters Pateacliend of the tie; with a metal cover platev extendingtheentire length of the tie 'and having downwardly bent ends which lieclosely -along thev end l Walls thereof and throughthe bent ends. of.which the threaded ends ofthe reinforce pass; vertical securingboltspassing through the tie,reinforce, and cover platg'bed'platessecured. to the upper face of thev ,cover plate and rail clamps se-vvcuredjto the'bediplates' bythe same bolts that"'secure"the bed platestothe cover plate.

In testimonyywhereof I aiix my signa-ture,I in presence of. twoWitnesses.

. FRANK EFTTER. Witnesses ED..A. KELLY,- CLARA E. YOUNG.

These bolts also of a body.v

